Early days: James Fenimore Cooper

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Washington Irving

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Herman Melville

Edgar Allan Poe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Henry David Thoreau

The Middle period: Louisa May Alcott

- Emily Dickinson

Theodore Dreiser

O. Henry

Henry James

Jack London

Mark Twain

Walt Whitman

Modern American writers: Pearl S. Buck

Willa Cather

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Robert Frost

Ernest Hemingway

Langston Hughes

Sinclair Lewis

Eugene O'Neill

John Steinbeck

Edith Wharton.

E.B. White

Tennessee Williams.